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[leonized]

WHO: Leon and Junseo
WHERE: Somewhere on the streets of Heropa
WHEN: June 4, afternoon
WHAT: Leon tries to talk Junseo down from doing something very bad
WARNINGS: Mentions of violence

[Leon was in Heropa today. He had the day off from entertaining small children, and he decided that instead of just skulking around his apartment and maybe be dragged into another one of Flynn's cooking experiments, he'd actually get out and leave Maurtia Falls completely.

He picked Heropa almost completely arbitrarily. He hadn't been there much, and it had always seemed like a nice enough city. He spends most of the day just walking around— eating and not really talking to much of anyone. He's happy to do this, because a lot of the time he doesn't particularly enjoy talking to people, anyways.

He's just walking to his next destination after lunch when he hears— something from the alley he just passed, so he pauses to look inside. It's not something he'd normally do, especially since his power set wasn't exactly conducive to self defense. But maybe it was an animal or something like that. He was good at handling animals...]

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[dumbfound]

[ Sometimes all you need is a change of scenery and a day to yourself to not deal with the people around you. Junseo could probably use that right now. At the very least, the people around him could probably use not dealing with him.

He'd eaten a little since his sudden trip home, and his arrival back in this world, but he hadn't eaten nearly as much as he should have. Junseo is young, and Junseo still doesn't understand everything that is happening with him, even though he's got several reputable vampiric sources (mostly vampires) assuring him that he was an entirely new species than what he was when he was the first time he arrived in this world.

He wasn't sure how much he believed them, but being offered bags of blood did seem to do a lot more for him than the burgers he kept throwing up after he tried to eat them.

It made him uncomfortable to ask government employees for his next meal, however, so he tended to go longer stretches of times than a newborn baby vamp with poor self control should, and while it hadn't ended in death yet, there had been a few close calls.

Like the one right now, where a plump, middle aged woman is standing her ground (though looking very shaken up about it) telling Junseo to fuck right off!! as he blocks her own way out of the alley, his mouth pulled tight, and his legs tense like he's ready to lunge at her any second now. ]

[leonized]

[Okay, that wasn't exactly what he was expecting. Although he was pretty sure he knew who that was— Junseo, that kid he'd spoken with a few times. He'd never struck him as the type to attack random women in alleys, however. And since unfortunately he wasn't exactly scared of the kid (since he didn't know he was a vampire yet...), it doesn't take much thought for him to reach out and grab his arm.]

What're you doing, Junseo?

[This was so much more risky than he knew it to be, so he didn't really think much of it. He was just stopping a kid from attacking random women in alleys. A kid that he didn't necessarily consider a friend yet, or anything... but whatever. He wasn't going to just ignore it.]

[dumbfound]

[ Leon's partly right. Junseo isn't normally the type to attack random women in alleys, and most of the times they'd spoken to each other before it's safe to say he would 100% never consider it. Though the last time they'd spoken he had been covered in someone else's blood, so... a few things had changed for him since then.

Fortunately, not enough that grabbing Junseo like that doesn't bring him back to his right mind enough to get him to stop the predatory stalking. He reflexively jerks away from Leon with more strength than you might expect just looking at him, and stares in silent confusion at the other guy.

He watches in just as much confusion as the terrified woman shrieks at the top of her lungs and pushes past both of them to get out of the alleyway, and as far away from Junseo as her legs will carry her. ]

[leonized]

[Leon watches the woman leave out of the corner of his eye. All he can hope for is that the woman doesn't try to call the police, or anything. He certainly wasn't in the mood to deal with that kind of a headache, at all. And he didn't think Junseo really did, either.

Once the woman was well clear of the alley, he actually looks at Junseo properly. At least he wasn't covered in blood this time... but he looked so pale. It was almost concerning to him, honestly.]

What the hell were you doing?

[He's glaring at Junseo now, clearly upset about having to stop Junseo from doing this.]

I didn't think you were that kind of guy.

[dumbfound]

[ Not covered in blood right now... but he sure came close to it just now. He looks so confused right now as well, like his own actions confused him, and Leon's presence here confuses him even more. Mostly because it does.

He remembers cornering the woman, and the impulse he had to bite into her, and while he still wants to do something along those lines, he feels confused and uncomfortable about the fact that he has those impulses. The only saving grace here is there's something about Leon that smells odd... unappetizing. It's helping Junseo reel things in a bit.

It's not doing much to help him explain what was just going down there though. ]

I don't know?

[ He sounds genuinely lost as he answers that question too. ]

[leonized]

[It's very fortunate for Leon that Junseo finds him unappetizing. He'd probably be a little more alarmed if he realized this was a possible way to blow his cover... even though Junseo had already seen his ears uncovered and unglamored. He had never commented on that, though, so Leon still wasn't entirely sure what to make of that. As far as he was concerned, no one knew.

He snorts a little, though. "I don't know", really? Was he claiming that he didn't know what he was doing, or was he saying something else? Leon wasn't really sure. He wasn't sure he wanted to know.

He turned to leave the alley, hand still on Junseo's arm.]

Come on, let's go somewhere else. Then you can explain what you do know.

[He'd hate to leave the kid standing there in the alley looking confused and lost, even if he'd just seen him almost attack somebody.]

[dumbfound]

[ Leon's right to assume that no one knows. Just because Junseo has seen something doesn't mean it's really registered on him. He's also seen people that look less human that Leon does here, and has become desensitized enough to the idea of non-humans at this point that seeing one doesn't really freak him out.

Good thing too, since he's no longer human himself.

Junseo nods, even though Leon is turning away from him, and quickly moves to take off after him. He wants to be left alone here just about as much as Leon would hate to leave him. ]

Ok... I don't know if I can though...

[leonized]

[He just— nods, even though he doesn't entirely get what Junseo might mean. He's walking quickly now, looking for the nearest café, or something, that they can duck into and sit and talk. He doesn't find a café, but he does eventually find a park, that seems relatively quiet and has several benches. Maybe he'd come back here some other time, if he felt like having some quiet time to himself.

But this wasn't about him. It was about Junseo, mostly, really.]

This look okay to you?

[dumbfound]

[ A park is probably better for Junseo right now than a cafe would be anyway. These days the smell of food tend to make Junseo feel a bit queasy. The smells in the park are overly strong as well, but at least they're not the kind of smells that make him feel like throwing up.

He nods slowly at Leon's question. It hasn't been that long since they walked away from the spot he almost attacked a woman, but Junseo has gone from looking confused to ashamed.

Ashamed, and very pale and sickly. It's hard to say what's up with him, but he definitely doesn't look good right now. ]

[leonized]

[The way Leon looks at Junseo is considerably softer than he'd normally look at anyone. It's really just concern, though— because he looks so pale and sickly compared to how he last remembered seeing him. He ends up leading both of them toward a bench, and he motions for Junseo to sit down first.]

Okay, so what's going on? I'll get it if you don't wanna talk because we don't really know each other, but you really don't seem like the type of guy to go randomly attacking random people.

[Maybe that was a naive assumption. He really didn't know Junseo, after all. But he'd always seemed so harmless.]

[dumbfound]

[ Junseo nods in frantic agreement at that assessment of his character. It's true! He's not the kind of guy to just randomly attack people! That's not him!

Only it's kind of him now, because this is the second time, and while Leon kept him from actually going through with it this time, Junseo did hospitalize a man the first time. There's no saying for sure it won't happen again, especially if he's not diligent keeping up with getting himself some stealthy blood fixes.

At the very least sneaking around doing shady things isn't anything new to him. ]

I don't really know... I mean... uhm... sometimes I get really hungry? And I just kind of... react badly?

[ This is the most piss pour explanation of vampirism ever given. ]

[leonized]

[He squints. There is absolutely no way that's the entire story, but he doesn't quite make the connection to "vampire". He knew what a vampire was, of course, and he knew they existed here. He just didn't really think that it was possible that Junseo was one. At least, not yet. But he does know enough about how abnormal Junseo had been acting to ask his next question.]

Hungry for what?

[Because attacking people when he was hungry probably meant that he wanted something that humans had. Blood? Flesh? Both were honestly possible, although he didn't want to think either of them were particularly. It didn't really seem like the sort of fate that Junseo deserved.]